The queue for Topman S/S 07 was colourful to say the least. Planted like popping candy sweet packets in between all of the fashion editors and Japanese buyers, were kids in flourescent wrapping sporting a range of gravity defying hairstyles. Explanation for the starburst kids came in the form of Carrie Mundane's collection for Topman. Showing alongside Topman Design and other young designers Dereck Walker and Carola Euler, easily the highlight for me was her Cassette Playa collection. I recall Carrie's designs from over two years ago, hoodies with flouro yellow dinosaur spikes down the spine and goggle eyed sweaters with mouths and sticky out tongues. I remember thinking they were the best thing since slice pan! I tell no lie when I say I was expecting something refreshing to take place at the NCP carpark in Soho, where the Topman show was this year.

The casting was inspired, nothing less could be expected with Thom Murphy at the helm, and the show opened with a rude boy who chewed gum and limped down the catwalk bolstered by a Hackney Empire sized attitude. Knocking spots off the models with agencies that marched back and forth with a lacklustre sense of robotic mimicry, he was followed by a boy that resembled a character from Playstation's Streetfighter and a blonde kid who walked like Liam Gallagher, dressed head to toe in oversize tees and mind bogglingly printed tracksuits, shorts and hoodies with custom made fruit coloured Nike trainers.

Carrie is not afraid of a little day glo, or hubba bubba flavoured artificial colourings, to say the least, embracing the colour spectrum as openly as she embraces the street styles of London's east end. With the distinct 90's inspiration, Gard Card, who has worked with Carrie on numerous projects, ushered out his triangular and Pac Man shaped creations with great aplomb. They converted the catwalk into an old Sega platform game with spaceships and alien invaders precariously making their way up and down the floorspace. The whole show ended in a crescendo as a giant Sonic the hedghog dressed in one of Carrie's eyeballs tee-shirts bounced out from backstage and did a lap of honour greeted with raucous clapping, hooting and hollering from the crowd and accompanying the bespectacled designer as she took a well-deserved bow. For me, it was fresh and new and energising. It was like when the Gizmo in Gremlins has all of those brilliant Gremlin kids who just wanted to party, blow things up and have a good time.

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